Why we kiss...
- added February 08, 2008
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- mirimysweet
- 10 months ago
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This is a truly fascinating article. It doesn't hurt that research from my alma mater (Go 'Pards) was cited. I especially enjoyed this section:
"kissing is probably not strictly necessary from an evolutionary point of view. Most other animals do not neck and still manage to produce plenty of offspring. Not even all humans kiss. At the turn of the 20th century Danish scientist Kristoffer Nyrop described Finnish tribes whose members bathed together but considered kissing indecent. In 1897 French anthropologist Paul d’Enjoy reported that the Chinese regard mouth-to-mouth kissing to be as horrifying as many people deem cannibalism to be. In Mongolia some fathers do not kiss their sons. (They smell their heads instead.)"
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- JordanRoth
- 10 months ago
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it's carnal, and animal.
just like how worlds collide.
like ant's communicate we have a lot to say and
words sometimes just don't mean a thing.
